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We propose a deep learning framework for COVID-19 detection and disease classification from chest CT scans that integrates both 2.5D and 3D representations to capture complementary slice-level and volumetric information. The 2.5D branch…

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Training Artificial Intelligence (AI) models on 3D images presents unique challenges compared to the 2D case: Firstly, the demand for computational resources is significantly higher, and secondly, the availability of large datasets for…

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Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have been widely adopted for medical image segmentation and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, due to the inherent inductive biases present in the convolutional…

Harmonizing the analysis of data, especially of 3-D image volumes, consisting of different number of slices and annotated per volume, is a significant problem in training and using deep neural networks in various applications, including…

Understanding model predictions is critical in healthcare, to facilitate rapid verification of model correctness and to guard against use of models that exploit confounding variables. We introduce the challenging new task of explainable…

Fine-grained Vision-Language Pre-training (FVLP) demonstrates significant potential in 3D medical image understanding by aligning anatomy-level visual representations with corresponding textual descriptions. However, existing FVLP paradigms…

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